Microsoft’s Nadella shows the softer side of Microsoft

The common theme at Dreamforce 2015 is soul, and how a company has heart. The term was brought up during several keynotes on Wednesday, including a talk with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, a keynote by Saslesforce CEO Marc Benioff and in a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Now into his second year leading Microsoft through the cloud-first, mobile-first

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In Microsoft’s Nokia Debacle, a View of an Industry’s Feet of Clay

Let’s call it the $7.5 billion (roughly Rs. 48,025 crores) lesson. That’s the amount Microsoft wrote off on Nokia’s phone unit, which it bought a little over a year ago for what it said was $9.5 billion (roughly Rs. 60,832 crores). Considering that the deal included $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 9,605 crores) in cash, the write-off means Microsoft now values

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Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft) Has a Far-Out Vision

Last June, in the basement of the Microsoft visitor center in Redmond, Washington, Todd Holmdahl, a Microsoft hardware guru, and others nervously walked Satya Nadella, the new chief executive, through a demonstration of a secret project. More than a hundred people had toiled for several years on the ambitious effort, which would eventually be called HoloLens. At the time, the

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One Year On, Nadella Shifting Focus at Microsoft

With one year under his belt, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has made strides in changing the focus of the technology giant that some feared was turning into a dinosaur. Nadella, who took over from Steve Ballmer in February 2014, has been moving to make Microsoft more relevant in the new tech world led by mobile-focused rivals such as Apple

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From the Outside, Looking In

In 2011, the company, in a belated attempt to catch up with Apple and Google in the smartphone world, announced a partnership with Nokia, the Finnish device maker. “There are other mobile ecosystems,” Nokia and Microsoft executives said in a joint letter at the time. “We will disrupt them.” Last year, with sales flagging, Microsoft bought Nokia’s handset business for

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